Study Nature

By Gertrude Stein 1874–1946 Gertrude Stein

I do.

Victim.

Sales

Met

Wipe

Her

Less.

Was a disappointment

We say it.

Study nature.

Who

Towering.

Mispronounced

Spelling.

She

Was

Astonishing

One

For

Fun

Study from nature.

Pleased

Thoroughly

Pleased.

By.

It.

It is very likely.

They said so.

Oh.

I want.

To do.

What

Later

Refined.

Turning.

Of turning around.

I will wait.

Gertrude Stein, “Study Nature” from The Yale Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980). Reprinted with the permission of Mr. Stanford Gann Jr., Levin & Gann, P.A., Literary Executor of the Estate of Gertrude Stein.

Source: The Yale Gertrude Stein (Yale University Press, 1980)

Biography

From the time she moved to France in 1903 until her death in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1946, American writer Gertrude Stein was a central figure in the Parisian art world. An advocate of the avant garde, Stein helped shape an artistic movement that demanded a novel form of expression and a conscious break with the past. The salon at 27 rue de Fleurus that she shared with Alice B. Toklas, her lifelong companion and secretary, became a . . .

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